Title - Heidi Author: Spyri, Johanna Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Heidi is five when she is sent to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut in the Alps. She quickly grows to love her carefree life with him in the mountain air, and the old man comes to love her, too. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2480 5.7 970 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 83 Total # of Words 2422 # of Different Words 719 Ave Word/.Sent 23 Hi Freq occurs 1819 75.1% # of Hi freq words 286 39.8% % of Long Sentences 62.9 Low Freq occurs 169 7% # of Low freq words 151 21% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Integral Setting Complex plot Topics Mountains Caring/Hugs Love Friendship Grandparents *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Reading Low Frequency Words acknowledge acquaintance acquainted adelaide afloat aglow animation answerable anxious apparently apprenticed apprenticeship ascends ascertain asseverated awaits awaken beggary bitterest brawl chambermaid clears companion companions concerning confidential conscience contrary conversation crimson curiosity curious defiant delicate deserved determined disfigured domleschg dreadful elder embittered encouraging endeavored exhorted expressed fellow figures fragrance gambled general gentleman gesture goatherd godless gossip gradually grey grief grisons hamlet happiness hatred heathen heidi heights horrified horror ignorance immediately immense inhale inquiring intend kindly laboriously latter learnt likely lively lofty marriage meadows mere moreover nailed natured neighborhood nevertheless notices nowhere occasion occupied offended opinion opportunity overcome particulars pause pleasantly plodded presented previous private property proposal public refuse related relationship remarked respond sake satisfying service seventy shapeless shawl shod shortly shunned situated soldier somewhat sorrow soul spite stead stern stout sturdy summits sunburnt surroundings suspicion tobias towards treatment unknown unwilling visible vowed wandered wayfarers whereabouts whispers whither wilder woollen yonder younger youth